Event details

Academic Skills	Digital Literacy	Personal Development	Responsibility	Sustainability	Work Environment

Overview/goals:

Streaming series around the globe, vacations or internships abroad, gaming with people from all over the world, studying and working with people from different countries…the list of globalization phenomena in everyday life is almost endless. As close and familiar as contact with different cultures is to us, we are sometimes surprised when we suddenly feel misunderstood due to different cultural values, ideas and ways of doing things or ‘somehow just don’t understand’ our counterparts. This is not uncommon, especially in international cooperation.

In order to make your studies and professional life even more successful, it is helpful to study the similarities and differences between cultures. This gives us the opportunity to make profitable use of both similarities and perspectives on the world and to feel at home in the world.

Learning objectives:

• Understand cultures better (including our own).
• Knowing methods that contribute to understanding and a change of perspective.
• Know key terms and models in the field of interculturality and global competence.
• To be able to develop strategies for dealing with critical events.
  

Contents:

• Cultural perspective
• Cultural dimensions and standards
• Learning and working traditions in different cultures
• Direct and indirect communication style / high and low context communication
• “Culture shock”
• Dealing with critical situations

We will address these and many other topics in this interactive workshop. With the help of theoretical input, exercises, varied group and individual tasks, you will acquire the basics of global competence. Of course, there will be plenty of time for your questions!

Methods:

• Group exercises on intercultural communication
• personal exchange
• Discussions in small groups
• Discussion of case studies

Prerequisite for participation:

The workshop is open to all students and is especially recommended for participants of the International Buddy Program(https://www.intl.kit.edu/istudent/10402.php). They will be given priority for a place.

Workload for ECTS:

1 ECTS: active participation in the one-day workshop, prior completion of the corresponding online learning module on ILIAS (max. 8 h)

2 ECTS: Participants in the International Buddy Program have the opportunity to earn a second credit by completing a transfer task. The task will be announced in the course.